proposal for trailing comma and semicolon

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:47:49PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 17/05/13 20:01, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 
> >I'd be in favour of allowing a trailing or leading comma anywhere that
> >comma is used as a separator. TupleSections would need to be changed or
> >removed, though.
> 
> The type constructors for tuples look like (,,,), so they would have
> to be a special case.

Ugh, true.

> I'd much rather leave tuples out of it: the
> precise number of commas in a tuple is significant.

It would be rather unpleasant to have

    [1,2,3,] ::        [Int]
    (1,2,3,) :: Int -> (Int, Int, Int, Int)


Thanks
Ian